I am not making statements about my beliefs here. That motion is present in the eternalist universe if defined as per standard kinematics (or indeed r...
It was to Zeno. It is not to kinematics, which accords with my everyday experience of motion: the thing is not where it once was. An assumption that m...
Of course, but when you then state that such a thing is "inherent", it begs the question of why such an inherent quality is not universal. One looks a...
Okay, I was agreeing with the emboldened part. The first part does not enter an everyday, Gallilean idea of motion, which is the idea I've stuck with ...
You said that, not me. It will be harder if you cannot remember which of us has which opposing argument. I'm perfectly happy with the description of t...
Sure, I thought this might be more your angle, and was thinking of simulation theory too. Claims like "the inherent nature of ours to believe in creat...
Not having a determinable position is a stretch. Even a stoopid frog can figure out where a fly will be such that it can fire its tongue out and catch...
The Earth does move, though, in the same way we mean in our everyday, subjective, presentist definition of movement: the Earth has different spatial c...
Grading on a curve, it seems okay. You're talking about a book in which it's fine to kill your own child if you think that's what God wants or if your...
Yeah fair enough, I tend to think incrementally. I was working (slowly) toward an argument for an answer to Q1, but I see you've jumped straight to th...
Yes, or a clue that their form, while what they always experienced it to be, is no longer consistent with human form. In principle, a juvenile AI coul...
I'd actually be fine with that. What horrifies me is that it's much worse: it's designed to teach impressionable children and the adults they grow int...
That's what I'm getting at really. Did Peter actually have sufficient information to know he was an AI before the operation? And, if so, did Peter hav...
A few questions that automatically spring to mind... to what extent will Peter's experience of himself have conflicted with his knowledge of other peo...
The physiological differences between a human and a chimp are small compared to the physiological differences between a human and a cockroach or a hum...
As I said, if you're abandoning kinematics (e.g. v = dx/dt), fine. If you're making claims about kinematics though ("no kinematic motion can exist in ...
It's not, and certainly is not shown. Is d(altitude)/d(radial) undefined for a mountain in good ol' fashioned 3D-land? No. It would be a mammoth achie...
Even better find! I was a lazy Googler; I'd read the paper before so new it existed. Thanks for making more of an effort. But the electron doesn't 'go...
Oh sure, I'm not saying it's unique. It could have lots of bad company :) However, any idea that requires a special frame, the logical questions to as...
That depends on the object. In the graphic employed by Huw Price over and over again in that video you posted (was it you? apologies if I misremembere...
:up: I'd say necessary in any eternalistic viewpoint. Putting broader physics aside, if you have any idea of motion that does not depend on eternalism...
Yes, that's precisely what I've been saying all along: any definition of motion that requires a passing 'now' differs from the standard kinematic defi...
I can and do choose between multiple actions with associated hoped-for effects. It's me and me alone working out the most efficacious course of action...
The passage of time denotes some kind of now-ish thing moving from 'now' in the past to 'now' in the future. A change in temporal position is two diff...
No, it does not say motion is impossible. You're saying that. Critics complain that it does not yield a passage of time. But motion does not depend on...
This is not me defining anything. This is the definition of velocity in classical kinematics. This is what I mean when I say: if you insist on no moti...
It probably helps not to call it "change in position" or "change in time". If you're happy flipping between 4D and 3D + time representations, that's p...
But that's the problem, you're clearly not. Motion is a gradient of position over time. Position exists in the block. Time exists in the block. As lon...
Right, only insofar as they are denoted by us as functions of coordinates, e.g. as fields, so that we can deal with them. I am no astronomer, but to m...
Ah, here's the preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.07207.pdf Lots of maths, but check out Fig. 3. Unless you like maths, in which case I'm a douche b...
There was a paper recently that was quite interesting, I'll see if I can dig it out (no joy so far). In QM, we're used to thinking of something like a...
But not necessarily the requisite qualification to stand for election. That's the issue: it holds academic achievement, albeit in a particular and apt...
Yeah, I do like the idea, but we have to acknowledge its limitations and vulnerabilities. It is still a kind of meritocracy and suffers the same flaws...
Yes and no. The no first. Imagine we never heard of the block or spacetime or relativity, and we're stuck with old-fashioned Gallilean kinematics. A t...
Yeah, I apologise for the ridiculous tone of the questions. In my defense, they are logical questions to ask given the assumption they ridiculed. I wo...
Caveat to follow, but: everything exists at all times, but not necessarily at the same place at all times. This variance of position with time is moti...
So this is a firmer statement of intent than the original question, which asked to resolve a perceived discrepancy between how women describe their cl...
Yes, I came at this with a kinematic idea of 'motion' and a geometric approach to the block universe. The latter seems justified given the video link ...
Yes, just this. It would be easier if I could draw it, or write equations. But if you can imagine it, groovy. The question is: what changes (other tha...
Taking the broader point, I agree that the existence of things that cannot even be indirectly observed is possible. I'm less convinced that it's meani...
Well, it was a good one then, I'd never heard of it. I'm just playing catch-up. In the sense of a 'now' that moves through time? Yes, I find that unpr...
That's quite a recent thing, though, isn't it. The dislike seems older than that. And it's a pro-science rather than intra-physics thing. They quote B...
Yes, I watched the video you linked (thanks) and realised you seem to lean toward the pure eternalism it discussed. But you are presenting MST for con...
That does make sense, mine is enormous :rofl: Seriously though, was that a thing I missed? I remember the Science Wars back in the early pomo days, an...
Actually, a crowbar separation needs to be made between two distinct things, although I think creativesoul covered it. When women complain about sexua...
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